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Horizontal vs Longitudinal - What's the difference?

horizontal | longitudinal |

As adjectives the difference between horizontal and longitudinal

is that horizontal is perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat while longitudinal is relating to length, or to longitude.

As nouns the difference between horizontal and longitudinal

is that horizontal is a horizontal component of a structure while longitudinal is any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.

horizontal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
  • (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets.
  • (archaic) Pertaining to the horizon.
  • * 1667': As when the Sun new ris'n / Looks through the '''Horizontal misty Air — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 594-5

    • Antonyms

    * vertical

    Derived terms

    * horizontally

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horizontal component of a structure.
  • (geology) horizon

    • longitudinal

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia longitudinal) (-)
  • Relating to length, or to longitude.
  • Running in the direction of the long axis of a body.
  • Forward and/or backward, relative to some defined direction.
  • (science, and, social science, of a study) Sampling data over time rather than merely once.

    • Antonyms

    * (relating to length) transverse * (sampling data over time) cross-sectional

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.
  • # A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
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